3.5 out of 5 stars
The publisher provided a copy of this, free of charge, in return for an honest review.
Who doesn’t love a quiz? A well-written one has something for everyone, easy questions to give a little confidence to participants, harder questions for stretch people and the occasional tough question to sort the experts out. Up until now, I hadn’t read Prisoners of Geography, so before starting working my way through this, I read that book. It was eye-opening, but also a reminder of just how fast things can change in geopolitics!
Anyway, to the quiz book. There are about 300 questions, puzzles and word games in total to answer. These have been divided into nine sections below and these are my scores:
Americas – 33 right
Asia – 40 right
Europe – 50 right
Africa – 37 right
Middle East – 33 right
Latin America – 52 right
Oceania – 27 right
The Poles – 43 right
Space – 29 right
Some of them were fiendishly difficult, but thankfully some of these questions are fairly straightforward so most people should be able to score some marks. I did well in some regions and poorly in others. The story of my school life! I did think that I should have done better in America, but then I remembered just how little Americans know about the rest of the world, so didn’t feel too bad then.
I did surprise myself with some of the answers I got right though. Advantage of having read a lot of non-fiction over the years. It would have been nice to know what the total number of marks available per section was, but then I would know just how badly I performed! It was a great bit of fun though.
well done matey.
Cheers, Jason
Sounds fun. Was the book good, too, or has it fallen too far out of date?
It is probably going to need a re-write after the next four years…